"The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them."

Confucius on faults
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"Have We not made the earth as a cradle and the mountains as pegs? And We created you in pairs, and We appointed your sleep for a rest; and We appointed night for a garment, and We appointed day for a livelihood. And We have built above you seven strong ones, and We appointed a blazing lamp and have sent down out of the rain-clouds water cascading that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants, and gardens luxuriant."

Qur'an on creation   

"And as for the unbelievers, their works are as a mirage in a spacious plain which the man athirst supposes to be water, till when he comes to it, he finds it is nothing; there indeed he finds God, and He pays him his account in full; (and God is swift at the reckoning)."

Qur'an on atheism   

"So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones."

Qur'an on water   

"Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God's guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them."

Qur'an on women   

"O unbelievers, I serve not what you serve and you are not serving what I serve, nor am I serving what you have served, neither are you serving what I serve. To you your religion, and to me my religion!"

Qur'an on multiculturalism   

"All people are a single nation."

Qur'an on humankind
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"If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent."

Qur'an on god
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"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd."

Aragon, Louis on love
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"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on love
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"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Love is a great beautifier."

Alcott, Louisa May on love
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"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish."

Adler, Alfred on love
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy."

Gouthey, A. P. on achievement
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"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on achievement
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius on failure
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"Patience is the key to contentment."

Mohammed on patience
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"Sleep is the sister of death and the dwellers of heaven will not sleep"

Mohammed on heaven   

"Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind."

Mohammed on contentment
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"The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr."

Mohammed on words
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"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world."

Mohammed on wealth
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"Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry."

Mohammed on wages
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"If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it."

Mohammed on character
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"Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature."

Mohammed on change
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"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."

Montapert, Alfred A. on achievement
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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live."

Adams, John on education
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"When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them."

Bible on peace
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"Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting."

Bierce, Ambrose on peace
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"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on peace
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"We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on peace
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"In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages."

Brahmanada, Swami on peace
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"If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace."

Baruch, Bernard M. on peace
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"Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half."

Phillips, Bum on winners and winning   

"It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference."

Bryant, Bear on winners and winning
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"Anyone can hate. It costs to love."

Williamson, John on hatred
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